Tag: historian
Michel Pastoureau, passionate and fascinating historian
Michel Pastoureau, born in 1947, historian of Western symbolism, is known worldwide for his work on the history of colors in the West. He has published in particular in Seuil,…
Charles-Eloi Vial, the young historian who wants to revolutionize the genre – L’Express
The world has changed since 1953. That year, André Castelot published a biography of Marie-Antoinette with Perrin. His copyright allowed him to buy a large apartment on Avenue Foch –…
“2024 will be a critical moment for the Russian-Ukrainian conflict,” analyzes historian Guillaume Lasconjarias
A Russian ship damaged in the Black Sea, massive Russian bombings which remind the inhabitants of several Ukrainian cities rather spared from the conflict in recent months that the country…
Confessional statement from Israeli historian: Zionism has failed
Israeli historian Moshe Zimmermann stated that Hamas’s “Aqsa Flood” attack on Israel on October 7 revealed the failure of Israel’s Zionism ideology. Zimmermann evaluated the consequences of the Al-Aqsa Flood…
Olivier Wieviorka, French historian and specialist in the Second World War
Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives historian Olivier Wieviorka in Idées. He is also a professor at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris-Saclay and a member of the Institut universitaire de France. and…
Jacques Julliard, historian and figure of the French left, died at the age of 90
The historian and left-winger Jacques Julliard has died at the age of 90. Pillar of New Observer alongside Jean Daniel, he became an editorialist for the weekly Mariannein 2010, then…
The historian on the sensitive Österlen question: “Like Coca-cola”
Where is the border for Österlen – really? The seemingly innocent question often arouses heated feelings among the locals. – But I’m quite generous, says historian and Easterner Lena Alebo.…
Michel Pastoureau, passionate and fascinating historian
Michel Pastoureau, born in 1947, historian of Western symbolism is known worldwide for his work on the history of colors in the West, he published in particular at Seuil, in…
The fashion historian: This is how we dress in a recession
Emma Severinsson, fashion historian at Lund University, says that a more stripped-down style is common in recessions. – A crisis in itself cannot revolutionize fashion completely, but what emerged during…
Wokistan, Roald Dahl, the Rushdians: the year 2023 seen by the historian of the future
In a few centuries, from a distant galaxy, a historian will look back on earthly cultural life at the beginning of the 21st century and analyze the fall of the…